We have a Firing solution.

[Soren the Silent]

"We have a firing solution with the forward lance captain" said the master gunner. "Requesting permission to open fire." Samael Vesk Captains of the destroyer Fist of Horus pride of the Praxil fleet smiled. Before him at maximum magnification the enemy drifted into his sights. The imperial ships where vast blocky things moving ponderously through the void. "You may fire at will" he snarled. With a blinding flash the beam of the forward lance battery crossed the intervening void, striking the imperial vessel amid ships. The enemies void shields held as the first struck thier hull. They did not hold when the second salvo hit home. Debris and fire billowed Into the void as the shields collapsed. And then the third salvo struck amid ships. The striken vessel fired a broadside in response but Vesk knew he out ranged them. It amazed the praxil captian that such ugly clumsy vessels had given them so much trouble these past 2 weeks. A full third of the fleet lost. To this? Preposterous! "Finnish them master gunner" he smirked and turned to the head of his security detail. "It would appear the rumours where false eh Vasquez? no magic powers after all. The head of security chuckled and was about to respond but was cut of. Suddenly the lights flickered and then entire bridge went dark. For a few heartbeats all was silent before the auxilery power kicked in bathing the bridge in a red glow. "Engineering report!" barked vesk. He felt something cold on his sleeve and looked down frost had formed on the armrest of his throne. On his right the master sergeant put his hand to his face. His nose had started bleeding. "This is engineering" crackled the bridges speakers "main drive of line auxilery has been engaged. Something's wrong with our consoles sir. Its as if weve been ha-" but the engineers voice was cut of by the deafening roar of gunfire. Gunfire on the bridge. Master sergeant vasquez, head of security and Vesk sworn life ward for 2 decades was discharging his weapon on the bridge! With horror Vesk watched as his life ward turned the bridge into a charnell house. With disciplined bursts of automatic fire the sergeant swept the bridge. His bullets tore into consoles and ratings alike leaving nothing but ruin in thier wake. And then he reloaded. Time seems to slow as Vazquez slams a fresh clip in and begins to turn towards the captain's chair. Frost cakes his hair and blood streams from his nose in twin rivers. His eyes are vacant. His eyes! With a cry Vesk tore his side arm from its holster and shot his old friend in the face. As the master sergeants corpse topples to the floor veck notes that the gunfire hasnt ceased. It was coming from the speakers. From the corridor outside. Madness had gripped his ship.Vesk started at the carnage surrounding him and slumped into his chair. He was going into shock. His nose was bleeding. Vesk was so distracted by this latest development that he didn't even resist when the voice told him to put his pistol to the side of his head. And then he pulled the trigger.

"We have a firing solution sir". Aboard the Radiant Spear Lucius Callus came back to himself. The mind ploy had worked. Before him the Fist of Horros had stopped firing and begun to list to starboard. She was dead in the water. Around him his Evocati continued the grim work he had started on the enemy bridge. With practiced ease they broke the fragile minds of the security personell and compelled them to open fire on thier shipmates. The enemy void shields flickered out. Lucius was stratified. "You may fire at will" he commanded before casting his mind back out into the void. There was still work to be done.